If you are lucky enough to have a Trader Joe's grocery store nearby, they have a great assortment of trail mixes (try the Tempting Trail Mix), wasabi peas, dried fruit like mango and dragonfruit, plantain chips and the list goes on. They also carry many popular bars, like Balance, Clif, etc.

I do and I have to check out their dried fruit to change up the naners and strawberries. Thats another thing I am sooo tired of is the BARS. Clif is good and very packable, but heavy. But I am so burn out on bars, just as much as GORP.Now to google dragonfruit :D

I like instant hummus, other instant dips/spreads that I make. Carry them with crackers or tortillas.Shelf stable cheese (hard and spreadable versions)dried fruitcashewskettle potato chipscandy barshomemade bars (none of them yecky energy bars for me! I like them tasty)cookiesbrowniessmall cups of soup easily madesoft fruit leather bars

On first day out:fresh fruit and berriesfresh baked bread from the bakery on the way out of towndonutsyogurt

I have a recipe for Logan Bread that I've used for about thirty years now. It has a similar calorie density to the others, but it has no milk or egg in it, so there is less to spoil. If I know I am going to be eating it up within a few weeks, I make it one way (moister), and if I think its consumption will stretch out over a longer period, I make it slightly differently (drier). It starts to taste a little bland after three months of storage in a sandwich bag. I've eaten some that was nine months in the bag with no spoilage. The good thing about the homemade recipes is that you can alter them slightly to suit your own preferences. I can eat it no matter how tired I am, or no matter how much appetite I've lost.--B.G.--

Peanut M&MsPringles- as said before ~200 calories in a baggie and slightly crushedSnickers!!!!Clif Bars (White Choc Macadamia is my new favorite)

If I'm just day hiking or on the first day out I like to bring a little hard salami and cheese with tortillas.

Side note: anybody else ever make some of Ultralight Joe's Moose Goo? If you can stand the texture its really not all that bad :P. Especially with some M&Ms on a tortilla... http://www.ultralightbackpacker.com/moosegoo.html